Source Analysis Flashcards
Who was the Kaiser
King/Emperor
Who was the Chancellor
Chief minister
What was the Reichstag
Parliament
Who were the Sparticist leaders
Karl Leibknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
When was the Sparticist uprising
January 1919
What did the Sparticists want
A communist revolution like that of Russia
What did the Sparticists do
Stage revolutions and political unrest
How were the Sparticists defeated
The Freikorps are ordered to shoot anyone with a gun killing over 150
When was the Kupp Putsch
March 13th to 18th 1920
What was the Kupp Putsch
Extreme right wings attempt to overthrow the government
What are the Freikorps
A military unit
Who led the Kapp Putsch
Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Luttwitz
What happened in the Kapp Putsch
General von Luttwitz refused to obey government orders to dissolute the Freikorps
Who refused army intervention
General von Seeckt
What was the government response to the Kapp Putsch
President Elbert, Chancellor Bauer and the Cabinet left Berlin